Word: chop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostages were being led in. One of the gunmen kept counting us and saying, 'Allah said to have 100.' They were cruel. They would say, 'For every one of our men who die, we'll kill ten of you.' They said they'd chop off our heads. 'You won't see any blood, you won't feel anything,' they...
...with limitless ambition, a fantasy-world of nearly comparable dimensions, but an endurance span no doubt just a fraction of that. What more would he have lavished during those off-the-field stretches than to share a cigar with Luis Tiant in the dugout, or to chop down wood with Carlton Fisk in the backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player...
...economic recovery that had been picking up speed for weeks has begun to skid. The bitter cold and unrelenting snows that have gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will linger on into the spring...
...lunch, what is mulligatawny soup, anyway? And as for the pork chop suey, you can leave it or not take it (sort of like heads I win, tails you lose, remember...
...comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage by hooking up electric eels; Wong Chop, a Chinatown connection; and, inevitably, a girl named Jane...